We are far in the future, being in the year 2025, where so many have lived and died fighting to achieve one uniformed theme; equality. Again, equality does not mean equal outcomes as the many in privileged positions would have the public to believe. Where is the self–pride that has been missing for centuries of certain groups and families? I would believe there would be an immense sense of pride knowing that you and your family built something with honesty, pure passion, and effort. However, it seems that too many are busy putting bandaids on fragile feelings and feeding the never-ending lie of belonging or entitlements. There are enough natural resources for all of us to thrive despite the examples and claims of the greedy 1%’s. I know going outside of what seems to have worked for centuries looks like a good idea to keep alive; but I would like for you to consider the consequences of your soul if that truly exists. Not to mention, the Earth is not of unlimited resources but finite. Do you want everything you’ve gotten away with or that you think you’ve gotten away with to be inherited by your most loved one? Are you okay with your child, spouse, siblings, parents, lover, or your precious business receiving the accountability that you and yours should have received decades ago, with compound interests? What should the universal consequences be for stealing: lands, people, monies, resources, history, language, antiquities, inventions, music, health, homes, identities, rights, or opportunities?

Today I will share some notable quotes about equality and justice:

Martin Luther King Jr.: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.“

Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.“

Sonia Sotomayor: “Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.“

Benjamin Disraeli: “Justice is truth in action.“

Muhammad Ali: “I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.“

Nelson Mandela: “As long as poverty, injustice, and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.“

Thurgood Marshall: “Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.“

Fannie Lou Hamer: “When I liberate myself, I liberate others.“

U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.“ Of course unless you’re born Black in America.

Alicia Garza: “I learned that racism, like most systems of oppression, isn’t about bad people doing terrible things to people who are different from them but instead is a way of maintaining power for certain groups at the expense of others.“

James Baldwin: “If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policeman, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected– those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! –and listens to their testimony.“

Harry Belafonte: “Although slavery may have been abolished, (on paper) the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.“

William Edward Gladstone: “Justice delayed is justice denied.“

How we learn from our choices makes a difference. We are always in control of our integrity. Don’t hide behind the norms of your society, right is right and wrong is wrong. How do you and yours want to be treated? Enough said, stop playing games that are the nightmares of too many.

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